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Welcome to the Weekly Report.
This week:
1. Exclusive look at budget documents from presentations to agency heads
2. A new chart showing the state of the competitive state Senate districts
3. The Weekly Insiders on the most powerful woman in Nevada, the anti-Ross Miller ad and more
Next week: A post-filing look at the State of the Races
IT'S A BRAVE NEW, BUDGET WORLD---MAYBE
Before Gov. Brian Sandoval made his announcement about not deciding yet on sunset taxes, his budget folks made a...
They came. They talked. They promised.
And, like whispers through the mists of history, Jim Bilbray and Dina Titus could be heard haunting the UNLV ballroom, admonishing the dozens of guests to hold firm, to secure the South's fair share.
For those of us who have watched this for decades, like a talky play with a tiresome script and disappointing ending, the spectacle of hundreds of valley leaders meeting to talk about “priorities” for Session ’15 seemed all too familiar. Then-Regent Bilbray,...
Here's a picture from an event I did about 20 years ago for Reno PBS called "A Gathering of Gamblers."
From left, standing: Don Carano, Phil Satre, moi, John Ascuaga, Jackie Gaughan, Bill Boyd. Sitting: Warren Nelson, Claudine Williams.
State Sen. Tick Segerblom, who is not on the ballot in 2014, is having a fundraiser next week sponsored by many who want to profit from his medical pot dispensary law and who can be a "Space Cowboy" by giving $5,000.
I kid you not.
Is there anyone in the state not trying to profit from The Great Weed Rush of 2014?
In an amazingly flattering profile in El Tiempo Las Vegas, the governor who once supported Arizona's controversial immigration law is all but lionized as a Hispanic deity.
He brags about getting funding for students who don't speak English well -- and promises to get more. He boasts of supporting drivers privilege cards for undocumented Nevadans -- it was not controversial. And he even crows about expanding Medicaid -- luckily, he has no serious primary opponent.
This is the part, though, that...